p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"strongemspan style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Fire to Ice/span/em/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"strongspan style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Thanks to Catalena117 for the review and the idea! I will be sure to include some of that in the upcoming chapters! Thanks very much for the review!/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"strongspan style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Chapter 3/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"James woke up with a headache – and a nose-ache, because one very determined redhead had made his nose bleed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"When James went down to breakfast, he noticed Lily and Remus were just getting up from breakfast. Sirius and Peter grinned, watching them both. James' heart collapsed at the way Lily was laughing at whatever Remus was saying./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""'Morning," Remus smiled when he saw James, but Lily just glared./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""Salutations, Remus," James said overwhelmed. "Where might both of you be heading?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""Um, ur, well–" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""Prefect duties," Lily said straightly. "We, unlike you, Potter, have much more important things to do." She turned to Remus. "Let's go, Remus."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""emRemus/em?" James coughed in disbelief. "Why not Lupin? Why does he get to be called his first name?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""He's a Prefect and a wonderful person," Lily said, face palming./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""Oh, sure, don't let me interrupt your snogging session," James said plainly./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Remus jumped at this, but Lily stayed firm. "Oh, sure," she retorted. "Enjoy your shagging session with, who was she? Oh yes, Kaitlin Jane. Enjoy your shagging session with her, won't you? Give her my best."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Lily made her way to the library and Remus followed behind in utter awe. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Once Prefect duties were over, Lily and Remus headed to lunch. Just as Lily was entering the Great Hall, Arabella clashed into her – and her hair was purple./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""Oh, Lily, look what Potter has done!" she cried, tears streaming from her eyes. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Lily gasped. "Oh, he's GETTING IT!" she ran inside the Hall, Remus following nervously./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""JAMES POTTER!" Lily yelled at the top of her lungs. James stood up wildly. "Hello, Evans," he said, his eyes wide./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""DON'T YOU HELLO EVANS ME, POTTER!" Lily yelled. "WHY WOULD YOU EVER DO THAT TO MY FRIEND, POTTER? FIFTY POINTS FROM GRYFFINDOR!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Lily knew the Hall was watching. Lily knew she was deducting points from her own house. But she didn't care. She had to get revenge for her friend. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""Evans, I–"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""I'VE HAD IT WITH YOU AND YOUR SICK JOKES! I UNDERSTAND HOW YOU COULD TRY YOUR JOKES ON ME, BUT MY FRIENDS – MY FRIENDS, POTTER – THEY DON'T DESERVE ANY OF IT!" Before she could realize what she was doing, she had punched James Potter on the nose – again. She didn't care if she got detention. She didn't care if she was EXPELLED, even. Her friends were more important, and she wasn't letting some sick fool mess around with them./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"That night was terrific in the common room. Everyone was talking about the whole fight. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""You did what you could, Lils," Emmeline reminded Lily when she wouldn't stop saying things like, "I could've hexed him," or, "I wish I punched him harder," or even, "I wanted to break his knees."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Lily was up reading when everyone went to bed, and she was the only one down in the common room. Suddenly, she felt someone's presence. That 'someone' sat down on the couch next to her./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""What do you want now, Potter?" Lily said harshly, fuming./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""I want to say sorry, Evans," James said earnestly./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""I'm sorry – WHAT?" Lily looked into his hazel eyes. "Who are you and what have you done to James Potter?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"James grinned. Not his usual mischievous grin. Something more…sad and sorry. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""I truly am sorry, Evans," James said. Before Lily could say something, he was already gone./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Once again, thanks for your brilliant idea, Catalena117! I hope that was good enough for your craving of yelling and softening! If anyone else has any more ideas or requests, please PM me or let me know in the reviews! /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Thanks and goodbye./span/strong/p
p style="text-align: left;"!-EndFragment-/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"strongspan style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Thanks to Catalena117 for the review and the idea! I will be sure to include some of that in the upcoming chapters! Thanks very much for the review!/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"strongspan style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Chapter 3/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"James woke up with a headache – and a nose-ache, because one very determined redhead had made his nose bleed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"When James went down to breakfast, he noticed Lily and Remus were just getting up from breakfast. Sirius and Peter grinned, watching them both. James' heart collapsed at the way Lily was laughing at whatever Remus was saying./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""'Morning," Remus smiled when he saw James, but Lily just glared./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""Salutations, Remus," James said overwhelmed. "Where might both of you be heading?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""Um, ur, well–" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""Prefect duties," Lily said straightly. "We, unlike you, Potter, have much more important things to do." She turned to Remus. "Let's go, Remus."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""emRemus/em?" James coughed in disbelief. "Why not Lupin? Why does he get to be called his first name?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""He's a Prefect and a wonderful person," Lily said, face palming./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""Oh, sure, don't let me interrupt your snogging session," James said plainly./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Remus jumped at this, but Lily stayed firm. "Oh, sure," she retorted. "Enjoy your shagging session with, who was she? Oh yes, Kaitlin Jane. Enjoy your shagging session with her, won't you? Give her my best."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Lily made her way to the library and Remus followed behind in utter awe. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Once Prefect duties were over, Lily and Remus headed to lunch. Just as Lily was entering the Great Hall, Arabella clashed into her – and her hair was purple./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""Oh, Lily, look what Potter has done!" she cried, tears streaming from her eyes. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Lily gasped. "Oh, he's GETTING IT!" she ran inside the Hall, Remus following nervously./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""JAMES POTTER!" Lily yelled at the top of her lungs. James stood up wildly. "Hello, Evans," he said, his eyes wide./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""DON'T YOU HELLO EVANS ME, POTTER!" Lily yelled. "WHY WOULD YOU EVER DO THAT TO MY FRIEND, POTTER? FIFTY POINTS FROM GRYFFINDOR!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Lily knew the Hall was watching. Lily knew she was deducting points from her own house. But she didn't care. She had to get revenge for her friend. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""Evans, I–"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""I'VE HAD IT WITH YOU AND YOUR SICK JOKES! I UNDERSTAND HOW YOU COULD TRY YOUR JOKES ON ME, BUT MY FRIENDS – MY FRIENDS, POTTER – THEY DON'T DESERVE ANY OF IT!" Before she could realize what she was doing, she had punched James Potter on the nose – again. She didn't care if she got detention. She didn't care if she was EXPELLED, even. Her friends were more important, and she wasn't letting some sick fool mess around with them./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"That night was terrific in the common room. Everyone was talking about the whole fight. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""You did what you could, Lils," Emmeline reminded Lily when she wouldn't stop saying things like, "I could've hexed him," or, "I wish I punched him harder," or even, "I wanted to break his knees."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Lily was up reading when everyone went to bed, and she was the only one down in the common room. Suddenly, she felt someone's presence. That 'someone' sat down on the couch next to her./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""What do you want now, Potter?" Lily said harshly, fuming./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""I want to say sorry, Evans," James said earnestly./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""I'm sorry – WHAT?" Lily looked into his hazel eyes. "Who are you and what have you done to James Potter?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"James grinned. Not his usual mischievous grin. Something more…sad and sorry. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;""I truly am sorry, Evans," James said. Before Lily could say something, he was already gone./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Once again, thanks for your brilliant idea, Catalena117! I hope that was good enough for your craving of yelling and softening! If anyone else has any more ideas or requests, please PM me or let me know in the reviews! /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Thanks and goodbye./span/strong/p
p style="text-align: left;"!-EndFragment-/p